WILLIAM REVILL: "Black people need to know the price that our people paid for us to be where we are today. It came with a price. Unfortunately what that price meant was that a lot of our people died."
BOB DOUGHTY: Lawrence Pijeaux is president of the museum. He points to the jail cell door that once kept Martin Luther King behind bars.
LAWRENCE PIJEAUX: "This is an extremely important artifact at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute."
Mr. Pijeaux says Dr. King wrote his famous "Letter From Birmingham Jail" locked behind that door.
LAWRENCE PIJEAUX: "It's important that we have this institution here so that people not only in this country but people come from around the world to learn about what happened in Birmingham."
Multimedia presentations, photographs and artifacts are used to document the civil rights struggle. Ann Marie Wilson visited the museum from London.
ANN MARIE WILSON: "We have heard Alabama has been very significant in the integration process but also had a lot pain along its journey. I wanted to see what I could learn from that to see how peaceful demonstrations can enable a diverse population to live side by side in harmony."
Vernon Roberts from New Jersey says the museum brings back powerful memories.
VERNON ROBERTS: "It kind of got emotional for me, and it gave me the opportunity to want to bring more of my family especially to have my children here so they can see the struggle that took place here."
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